Subject : L4) What parts of a tropical cyclone are most favored
for tornado formation?

Contributed by Bill McCaul (USRA)

In the northern hemisphere, the right-front quadrant (relative to TC
motion) of recurving TCs is strongly favored. In the southern hemisphere,
the left-front quadrant presumably is favored, although there is little
research on this point. Most of the tornadoes form in outer rainbands
some 50-300 miles from the TC center, but some have been documented to
occur in the inner core, or even in the TC eyewall
(Novlan and Gray, 1974; McCaul, 1991).